Experiences with
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Kindness of Strangers
Hi Friends,
I just posted a personal reflection on my blog http://bkoffman.blogspot.com about the generous souls that actually give their blood to help keep me and others going with CLL and its auto-immune or infectious complications.
I might not be here today if not for the timely administration
‘Biodegradable’ CAR may aid transplant in AML
CAR-T therapy first showed success in CLL and AML leukaemias, but one of the problems with CAR-T is that the T-cells are not selective against cancerous lymphocytes, so they keep killing off both cancerous and non-cancerous lymphocytes long after treatment initiation. For CLL patients, that means long
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Professor Graham Hughes' Blog December 2014
It was at this stage, when Denise ended up once again in our clinic following an overnight in casualty, that we opted for a new approach – a trial of IVIG – intravenous immunoglobulin.
This medicine, taken from the protein of healthy donors, is rather like ‘black magic’.